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No. 223,899. Patented Jan. 2?, i880.

WITNESSES INVENTOR 5 da%// 46 W'MK BY MAW ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

,WILLIAM W FAY, or JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, Assienon TO HIMSELF Ann CHARLES 0. ADAMS, or sAME PLACE.

RAIL-JOINT.

SPECIFICATION forming partlof Letters Patent No. 223,899, dated January 27,1886. I Application filed November 28, 1879.

Jefferson Oity,in the county of Cole and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Railway-Rail Joint, of which the following is a specification. r

' The object of my invention is to forma strong and substantial joint between the ends 'of adjoining railway-rails. I

The invention consist-S m connecting the ends of adjoining rails together by means of a metal plate inserted inslots in the adjacent ends, and also in fastening and tightening said connecting-plate in its place by means of laterally-dri'ven dovetailed wedges.

p In the accompanying drawings,'Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section, taken on, line a: m of Fig. 2,0f my improved railway-rail joint; and Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-seotion-of the same on line :10 a) of- Fig.1; 4

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring tov the. drawings, A A are the ends oftwo railway-rails. In these ends A A g5 are central longitudinal vertical slots, a a, ex tending. through the base I) of the rails and upward into the webs -0 -to the base of' the headsd. y v v The ends'A A, respectively, are likewise 0 provided with transverse dovetailed slotsv e e, made through the, webs c, with'the lower dovetailed sides, fi'of said slots next to the bases b of the rails.

top of slotsa a by wedges G G.

B is a steel plate inserted in the vertical slots at a, so as to'join the ends A A of the 5 rails together'. 0 (J. are dovetailed wedges, which are driven, respectively, through transverse slots 6 e under the lower edge of steel coming displaced or detached vertically or lat- 5 .erally, and, further, it snpportsthe -ends A A against sagging.

hen the wedges 0C are driven through slots 0 0 they are prevented from coming out by a rod, '9, passed through holes h in thesmaller ends of said wedges, said rod having its end i bent to prevent itfrom slipping out of the said holes h.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and'desire to secure by Letters Patent-- J As an improvementlin railway-rail joints, the rail ends A A, provided, respectively, with slot-s a a and e e, in combination with the steel connecting-plate B and wedges G 0, sub- 'stantially as described.

WILLIAM W. FAY.

Witnesses:

O. W. THOMAS, F. J. FRAMER. 

